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mostr4am68940d@Drunkzee actually median is a type of average. Average doesn't mean arithmetic mean.
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Drunkzee251340d@mostr4am while i agree in spirit, even wikipedia disagrees with this: "in mathematics and statistics, the arithmetic mean, arithmetic average, or just the mean or average..."
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mostr4am68940d@Drunkzee colloqualisms existing doesn't erase the correctness of the original meaning.
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Drunkzee251340d@mostr4am that's what i mean by agreeing in spirit :D
But in the end language is about expectations as much as it is about communication -
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Drunkzee251340d@mostr4am isn't communication just born to facilitate the social part of these expectation? 😌
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jiraTicket227840dWith uneven amounts of people - it can be the case that only 49.999…% are dumber than the mean
if we had 3 people scoring 10,20 and 30 in intelligence then only 1/3 of people would be dumber than the average score of 20 😏 -
jiraTicket227840d@mostr4am so the statement is true half of the time 🤓
(Assuming the intelligence score is so granular that no one has the exact same score) -
Root8236840dLet’s simplify:
People are stupid. Lots of people are incredibly stupid.
For parallel analogy:
Stupidity is a spectrum, ranging from 100% stupid at the bottom to 0% stupid at the top. Nobody has made it to the top.
Where’s the middle, and what % of people are below it? Let’s oversimplify this time: Too many. People are stupid. -
mostr4am68940d@Root hum I disagree. Nobody's 100% stupid . Some are pretty close I admit, but it's more like an asymptote. You can always go closer but you'll never reach ultimate stupidity. Some tried but they didn't make it back to tell it.
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Root8236840d@mostr4am Yeah, I agree; no one has reached either end. But some are certainly trying.
Did you know half of the people were dumber than average?
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